Re: Debian kernel version for lenny?
Hi
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:40:51PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> hello
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:14:51AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> >
> > I'm the maintainer of kernel-patch-openvz (soon linux-patch-openvz)
> > and I would like to know which version of the linux kernel that
> > you think will be part of Lenny?
>
> why is it not linked to linux-module-extra?
What is linux-module-extra? I have not heard about it before.
> > The reason is that the porting process for a specific kernel version
> > is rather high for upstream, because Debian and pristine kernel
> > do have rather lot of differences. The openvz kernel patch is also
> > very big (~ 700kB).
>
> i saw that openvz patch comes quite late too after upstream stable
> release.
Yes that is probably the case. This is the main reason behind my question.
Upstream is the one that ask me. :) They want to know where to focus
their resources.
> well porting is the oot trouble, but the openvz do very cool cleanups
> along the namespace additions. although i kinda doubt that it will
> be ready for lenny release. the next trouble is that vserver left
We successfully managed it last release, but it was not that easy to convince
the release managers. ;)
> tracking mainline since 2.6.22.
Ahh I was not aware of that. Do you know if Micah is working on that?
> we have not settled for the lenny version it is certainly > 2.6.24.
> Most probable candidate is 2.6.26.
Ok, thanks that is really good to know.
Best regards,
// Ola
> best regards
>
> --
> maks
>
>
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